Air Force using AI to improve weather models for military planning
By Colin Demarest
Tuesday, Jun 14
WASHINGTON — The Department of the Air Force is using artificial intelligence to augment weather predictions and better understand environmental conditions in places where the U.S. military may be headed.
Deputy Chief Information Officer Winston Beauchamp told the UiPath TOGETHER Public Sector conference on June 14 that the technology is improving forecasting abilities and providing valuable insights for planning and operations.
“Using AI, we’ve been able to enhance our weather models to take data that we don’t have ground-based sensors to collect, and extrapolate and interpolate between those data points to come up with weather predictions over parts of the world,” he said.
While poor weather predictions in civilian life can translate to soaked shirts or sunburns, lackluster or dated models for the military can prove far more disastrous. Weather has profound effects across domains, according to Air Force documents, and influences how, when and where actions are taken.
https://www.defensenews.com/artificial-intelligence/2022/06/14/air-force-using-ai-to-improve-weather-models-for-military-planning/
